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Cover Design for "Precaution"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "Precaution"

6 3/4 x 4 5/16 inches (172 x 110 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2208

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: Precaution by Cooper [at head] One Shilling & Sixpence [at foot] London Bentley.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel Precaution; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Precaution.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department